Field Notes: Lineage
Susie King Taylor
Taylor turned an escape from slavery into a career of service — nursing soldiers, teaching children to read, and then writing it all down so no one could erase it.
Susie King Taylor
Taylor turned an escape from slavery into a career of service — nursing soldiers, teaching children to read, and then writing it all down so no one could erase it.
Harriet Jacobs
Jacobs hid in an attic for years rather than surrender her children to slavery, then turned that ordeal into one of the era's most unflinching written testimonies.
Harriet Jacobs
Jacobs hid in an attic for years rather than surrender her children to slavery, then turned that ordeal into one of the era's most unflinching written testimonies.
Sarah Parker Remond
Remond carried the American case against slavery across the ocean, refusing to let the fight stay confined to one country's conscience.
Sarah Parker Remond
Remond carried the American case against slavery across the ocean, refusing to let the fight stay confined to one country's conscience.